1954 – First Modern Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) ⌛🔬
We continue our series on the milestones of clinical research. The next important year is 1954, when one of the largest and most important modern randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in history was conducted: the field trial of the Salk polio vaccine. 💉😷 Although the first medical RCT is often considered to be the 1948 streptomycin […]